By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The # FinalNotice describes itself as "an interactive map app that exposes climate change, environmental racism & historical erasure on the Brooklyn waterfront" The project was initiated by Danielle Russo Performance Project in 2020...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Thousands of Red Hook youth in 1952 experienced being on the water thanks to a summertime excursion that took them up the river and out of the hot city for a day in the country. On August 26, 2500 kids loaded on to a boat docked at the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This is not the origin story for the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, created by Harold Gray and first published in 1924, but it is the story of a little orphan girl named Annie who was adopted by a wealthy family. In 1908, the Annie of our story...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Good Data Drives Policy In 2017, fourth graders at PS 15 in Red Hook collected street litter and litter data in the same area in three different litter surveys in their neighborhood. After the first two litter surveys, the students used the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Brooklyn Life reporter Addison Steele, describes in 1897 the harvesting and pickling of mussles growing on the ramains of ship in Erie basin: A large part of the bull of the sunken Ailsa has been removed from the spot where she went...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
This article from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 12, 1911, recounts the winter-time lives of Erie Canal barge families who winter in Erie Basin. Colonies of Cozy Canal Boats Cluster for Winter City of Inland Navigators Prepares for Annual...
A view north west across Governor's Island to Manhattan, as seen from Brooklyn. June 6, 1931. P. L. Sperr. The location is approximate
Street address: Governors Island, New York, N.Y.
Wolcott Street, north side, east of Conover Street, showing part of P. S. No. 30 and Christ Chapel.
Street address: Wolcott St. & Conover St., Brooklyn, NY
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Kids have been swimming off the piers of Red Hook probably ever since the piers existed. It is not common today in part because of the increasing awareness that the polluted water, particularly after a rain fall, is a health hazard. "Taking a...
